Hanne Birkmose - Shareholders Duties

Shareholders Duties

European Company Law Series

VOLUME 12

Editor

Steef Bartman, professor of company law at Leiden University in The Netherlands and lawyer at DLA Piper. The editorial board, made up of leading company law experts from around Europe, ensures that each book is topical, well-written and practical.

Introduction

The European Company Law Series is closely linked to the bimonthly journal European Company Law, also published by Kluwer Law International.

Contents/Subjects

The series covers subjects of company law in a broad sense, including insolvency, co-determination and securities law. Topical issues such as merger control, corporate governance, and piercing the corporate veil have been covered.

Objective of Series

Analysis of topical or complex subjects in European company law.

Readership

Academics; regulators; practitioners.

The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

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Editor and Contributors

Hanne S. Birkmose took her PhD in Law at the Aarhus School of Business in 2003. In 2016, she was appointed professor at the Department of Law, Aarhus University. Her research areas include Company Law in particular International Company Law and EU Company Law and Corporate Governance, and she has written several national and international articles within these areas. She is also the author of books on UCITS and Alternative Investment Funds in Denmark. Recently, she has mainly worked with shareholder activism and the role of institutional shareholders. In 2014, she received a three-year research grant from the Danish Independent Research Council for a project on Shareholders Duties. Hanne Sndergaard Birkmose is a member of the ECGI (European Corporate Governance Institute, Brussels), the Nordic Company Law Network and the Nordic Corporate Governance Network.

Jan Andersson is a professor in private law, in particular business organizations, at Stockholm University. Previously, he has been a professor in commercial law at Jnkping International Business School (JIBS) in Sweden and before that professor in private law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, Norway. He has a Swedish Dr. Jur. from Uppsala University and two LLM (Lund and Ume). Since the early days of his research career, his main interest has been corporate law and other areas closely connected to it such as law & economics and corporate governance. He has a wide range of publications in Swedish and English. He is also a member of the Nordic Network for Company Law as well as the European Model Companies Act group of experts.

Andreas Cahn is a professor of Law and currently Executive Director at the Institute for Law and Finance, Goethe-Universitt Frankfurt am Main. Andreas Cahn studied Law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt/Main and at the University of California at Berkeley, where he earned an LLM. After his Second State Examination in Frankfurt he worked for six years as a research assistant at the University of Frankfurt. During this period of time Andreas Cahn wrote his doctoral thesis on problems of managers liability (published in 1996) as well as his post-doctoral thesis on the finance of corporate groups (published in 1998). In 1996, he took up the Chair of Civil Law, Commerce Law and Corporate Law at the University of Mannheim. Andreas Cahn has published extensively on Corporate Law, Capital Market Law, the Law of Products Liability, Civil Law in general as well as on Civil Procedure.

Iris H.-Y. Chiu is Professor of Corporate Law and Financial Regulation at the Faculty of Laws, University College London, specializing in corporate governance, company law, banking and investment regulation. Dr Chiu joined the UCL Faculty of Law in September 2009. She previously taught at the School of Law, Kings College London and the University of Leicester. She was a legislative draftsman and State Counsel at the Attorney-Generals Chambers in Singapore prior to joining academia.

Dr Chiu has published extensively on directors duties, shareholder stewardship and corporate governance, as well as regulatory theories and governance in the financial sector, in over forty peer-reviewed journals in the UK and US. She has published a number of books including Regulatory Convergence in EU Securities Regulation (Wolters Kluwer 2008); The Foundations and Anatomy of Shareholder Activism (Hart Publishing 2010); The Foundations and Future of Financial Regulation (Routledge, 2014, co-authored with Mads Andenas) and The Legal Framework for Internal Control in Banks and Financial Institutions (Hart Publishing 2015). She is editor of The Law of Corporate Governance in Banks and Financial Institutions, one of the Elgar Law and Finance Series and the Research Handbook on Shadow Banking. She is Executive editor of the European Business Law Review and co-series editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Corporate and Financial Law Series.

Dr Chiu is co-Director of the UCL Centre for Ethics and Law, a research centre focused on thinking and development in topical issues of business and society, law, regulation and ethics, the professions and ethics, and ethical dimensions in medicine and technology. The Centre of Ethics and Law may be found at the website below:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/law-ethics.

Blanaid Clarke holds the McCann FitzGerald Chair in Corporate Law at Trinity College Dublin. Her research interests include corporate governance, financial services and capital markets and she has published extensively within these areas. She is the Irish representative on the OECD Corporate Governance Committee and is a member of the European Commissions Informal Company Law Expert Group. Previously, she was one of the founding members of the Institute of Directors Centre for Corporate Governance at UCD and a member of the European Commissions Reflection Group on the Future of EU Company Law. Blanaid Clarke is a member of the Irish Central Bank Commission and also works with the Irish Takeover Panel. Blanaid is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Business Law and Palmers Company Law.

Pierre-Henri Conac is a professor of Commercial and Company Law at the University of Luxembourg. From 1999 to 2006, he was an associate professor of Law at the University of Paris 1 (Panthon-Sorbonne). He graduated from the University of Paris 1 (Panthon-Sorbonne) in Business Law (1991), from HEC School of Management (1990), and from the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (1994). He also earned an LLM from Columbia Law School (1995). His research areas deal principally with Securities Law, Company Law, and Comparative Law in these fields. He has been a member of several working groups within these areas, including the EU Commission-appointed Reflection Group on the Future of EU Company Law of 2011 and the European Model Company Act (EMCA). He is currently a member of the Informal Company Law Expert Group (ICLEG) advising the EU Commission on European company law. He participates regularly in conferences in Europe and internationally. He is the managing editor of the Revue des Socits (Dalloz), Frances oldest corporate law review, and is one of the managing editors of the European Company and Financial Law Review (ECFR).